Patti Davis Quotes

During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

It's very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we're so worried about gas prices that we don't even see this stuff.

Our massive tampering with the world's interdependent web of life—coupled with the environmental damage inflicted by deforestation, species loss, and climate change—could trigger widespread adverse effects, including unpredictable collapses of critical biological systems whose interactions and dynamics we only imperfectly understand. Uncertainty over the extent of these effects cannot excuse complacency or delay in facing the threats.

Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.

There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

I worry about the world.

Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.

We're not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long.